Maria Grazia Rossi

Bio note

Maria Grazia Rossi (Ph.D Università di Messina, Messina, 2012) works as post-doc researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her current research, in the fields of philosophy of language and healthcare communication, focus on the role of metaphors as argumentative tools to foster patient understanding. She has worked on metaphors and emotions as reasoning and decision-making tools, especially in the medical and moral context. She published a monograph, several articles and edited books, among which "Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education” (De Gruyter, 2017, with F. Ervas and E. Gola), “The ethical convenience of non-neutrality in medical encounters. Argumentative instruments for healthcare providers” (Teoria, 2017, Rossi M.G., Leone D. & Bigi S.) and “Metaphors for patient education: a pragmatic-argumentative approach applying to the case of diabetes care” (RIFL, 2016).

Institutions

IFILNOVA

The Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) is a research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas) of the New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and is supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.